what is our national population policy 2000 regarding adolescents in India?
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The National Population Policy (NPP) 2000 provides a policy framework of achieving goals and prioritizing strategies during the next decade to meet the reproductive and child health needs of the people of India along with the target to achieve the net replacement levels.
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• NPP 2000 identified adolescents as one of the major sections of the population that need greater attention.
• Put greater emphasis on other important needs of adolescents including protection from unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
• It called for programs that aim towards encouraging delayed marriage and child - bearing , education of adolescents about the risks of unprotected sex , making contraceptive services accessible and affordable, providing food supplements, nutritional services, strengthening legal measures to prevent child marriage.